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  What a Vote for Abdul El-Sayed Means Nov. 3, 2026 Credit... Photo illustration by Daniel Ribar for The New York Times On a recent visit to Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., I heard from someone who described the state’s U.S. Senate race this year as a choice either against antisemitism or for democracy. What he meant was that a vote for Mike Rogers, the Republican, was also a vote for President Trump and therefore a vote against democracy. But a vote for Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat, was a vote not just for a stridently anti-Israel candidate but for the normalization of antisemitism that his candidacy has helped to produce. Temple Israel is the synagogue where, in March, a Hezbollah-inspired terrorist rammed a gasoline- and fireworks-laden truck through its doors with the intention (as the attacker said in a prerecorded video) of killing “as many of them as I possibly can.” The stakes in the race were again brought home after Representative Haley Stevens, who ha...
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  Nvidia Tells Data Center Clients to Trim China Business, FT Says Save Translate 0:57 Nvidia Corp. has instructed its cloud computing clients to scale back their exposure to Chinese companies, the Financial Times reported , citing unidentified people. The main provider of chips for training and running large language models told its customers to make sure they sell at least 51% of their services to companies outside China, according to the newspaper. For years, Washington has sought to restrict the sale of Nvidia’s most advanced AI chips to China, citing national security concerns. The US has also sought to dismantle smuggling rings that move the semiconductors into the country. Nvidia’s new compliance rules will apply to its clients across the world, the FT reported. But they will only influence future contracts and existing leasing deals won’t be impacted. In response to questions from the FT, Nvidia said “Datacenters and clouds built on American chips are the foundation that A...
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  Wall Street CEOs, Big Money Managers Divided Over AI Risks Is AI a Bubble? Wall Street Titans Say Not Even Close Is AI a Bubble? Wall Street Titans Say Not Even Close November 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM GMT+11 Updated on November 3, 2026 at 4:49 PM GMT+11 Save Translate 5:24 Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Some of the world’s biggest asset managers are sounding the alarm about risks to the artificial intelligence boom, even as Wall Street’s top CEOs talk up the potential windfall from the market. Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Roman and Bain Capital’s chair John Connaughton are among a growing number of investment managers warning of bubble risks in AI and an eventual downturn after the sector’s breakneck expansion. “At some point in time, there’s going to be a downturn, and then things are going to break,” Roman said at the 2026 Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong on Tuesday. A slump could be triggered by anything from rising US inte...
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  Risk of higher volat­il­ity for stocks is rising Financial Times Europe Kokou Agbo-Bloua is global head of research at Société Générale Kokou Agbo-Bloua 3 Nov 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen The spike in volat­il­ity in equity mar­kets late last week might well be a fore­taste of things to come. Mar­kets are head­ing into the uncer­tain out­comes of the midterm elec­tions in the US amid rising wor­ries over the risk of intens­i­fied con­flict in Iran and investor ques­tions about the rol­lout of AI infra­struc­ture. There have been signs that a pick-up in volat­il­ity had been com­ing. Equity mar­kets have been remark­ably resi­li­ent this year. Almost unbe­liev­ably so. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have triggered higher volat­il­ity in sov­er­eign bond and com­mod­ity mar­kets. But indices of investor expect­a­tions of equity volat­il­ity implied by options trad­ing — the Vix index in the US and the Vstoxx index in Europe — have been rel­at­ively calm with an aver­a...
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  The AI prob­lem we feared is not the AI prob­lem we got Financial Times Europe Sarah O’Con­nor sarah.ocon­nor@ft.com 3 Nov 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen Folk memor­ies can be power­ful things. Per­haps the most vis­ceral shared image we have of tech­no­logy’s impact on jobs involves the Lud­dites of 19thcen­tury Eng­land: skilled work­ers abruptly turfed out of their jobs, who returned under cover of night to des­troy the machines that dis­placed them. Little won­der that, as our latest machine age has dawned, the ques­tion on many people’s lips has been “Will AI steal my job?” But the Lud­dites’ story might have led us to worry about the wrong thing. In many other (less fam­ous) his­tor­ical examples of auto­ma­tion, the import­ant driver of change was not exit, but entry. Occu­pa­tions threatened by tech­no­logy shrank over time because fewer young people were hired into them, rather than because exist­ing work­ers were ejec­ted from them. This was true for Vic­torian b...
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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback How talk­ing to Putin has split the west Financial Times Europe Gideon Rach­man gideon.rach­man@ft.com 3 Nov 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen Is it worth talk­ing to Vladi­mir Putin? The Rus­sian pres­id­ent has a long his­tory of string­ing west­ern lead­ers along. George W Bush claimed to have looked the man in the eye and found him “very straight­for­ward and trust­worthy”. Angela Merkel of Ger­many and François Hol­lande of France engaged in pro­longed and fruit­less dip­lomacy with Putin after his annex­a­tion of Crimea in 2014. Steve Witkoff, the Don­ald Trump admin­is­tra­tion’s emis­sary, recently took naiv­ety to new levels by call­ing Putin a “human­it­arian”. The fol­low­ing morn­ing, a Rus­sian mis­sile attack on Dnipro rail­way sta­tion in Ukraine killed 15 civil­ians. Non­ethe­less, talks with Putin’s Rus­sia con­tinu...
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  «Nous ne sommes plus protégés par les lois de la République» : la colère de la police, épuisée et inquiète du mouvement social qui perdure 00:00 -06:14 Des policiers anti-émeute interviennent dans une rue de Paris lors de la manifestation du 31 octobre. Abdul Saboor / REUTERS DÉCRYPTAGE - Le patron du syndicat des commissaires de police fustige « un fascisme rouge, de rue, qui ruine notre pays ». Il en appelle à un sursaut républicain. « On ne peut pas continuer comme cela, on ne peut pas refaire les “gilets jaunes” de 2018. » Frédéric Lauze, secrétaire général du Syndicat des commissaires de la police nationale (SCPN), oscillait dimanche entre colère et inquiétude face au mouvement social qui semble s’ancrer dans la durée . « Nous sommes face à des angoisses, elles existent. Cela va durer car il n’y a pas de texte à retirer, pas de mesures objectives qui s’imposent. Soixante-dix mille policiers ont été mobilisés encore cette fois-ci. Pour assurer le maintien de l’ordre, ils s...
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